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title: Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for exa… — Churches of the English-speaking world II · tree and pragmatics
description: Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for example in shared services and charities. Who acts: Ecumenism, churches. A sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Churches of the English-speaking world II, sentence 13

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Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for example in shared services and charities.

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**Who acts:** Ecumenism, churches · **What happens:** mean, work together, seek, share · **To what, where:** churches, unity

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Churches of the English-speaking world II» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ecumenism, churches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson:13
# text = Ecumenism means churches working together and seeking unity, for example in shared services and charities.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 029-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	Ecumenism	ecumenism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
8	unity	unity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	charities	charity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Ecumenism | churches |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Topic |
| 2 | **work together** | gerund | churches *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | churches *not said here* | unity |  |  |  | for example in shared services and charities | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent unity=Location for example=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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